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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

Scarlet cashmere or diagonal wool
frocks for little girls are made very effect
i've, with black braid put on in small
snail shell patterns, or in diminutive
Greek KEYS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

In mining districts where men have
been burned or bruised by carelessness,
Salvation Oil has been used to great ad-
vantage. II is new sold by all druggists
at twenty-five cents a bottle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

The amount of braiding on frocks.
wraps and garments of all kinds is enOr-
nous, and the braid designs this fall are
very fine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

In the new woolens, red and brown
seem to struggle for the ascendency
There are reddish browns and brownish
reds, and clear reds and browns are con-
trasted in plaids aud stripes
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 3-Bromley's
WOODEN mills in Germantown were destroyed
by fire at an early hour Wednesday morn
ing The total los will reach s75UeL
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

stage, on which she made her appearance IN
Juvenile parts, attracting considerable atten-
ton by her dramatic talents as well as by her
vocal accomplishments At Ii she had be-
come the reigning prima donna of the Stock
holm opera Later she sang in all the prln-
clpal cities of the civilized world. her tour OF
the United States being under the manage
ment of p T. Barnum. She created Juror
wherever she appeared
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

Epaulets of jet are fayorite sdjuncts of
fall and winter dresses.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03
THE MARkE rs.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2


Following vera the buari Of trade quotations
to-day: Wheat No November opened 1aasc
CLOSED 7.l4c: December Opened 7sas,, clos,-d
1889; January, op-ne.i Il, ciosai 1910. Corn
No. : November opened 4ll4$sc, closed
illsc; peccmtr-r, opened ill4 asc, closed i1ssc;
January, opened HIIc ci1-,i 4li4 sc Oats
No. November opened 25lsc bid closed 25lsc;
December opened Gag bid clos.d 2is4c nom
ina; January pencd 2s's', cinS,'d 25574e asked
Pprk-Januarv, opened Sl2 10 closed Sl25O bid;
February. opened sls 81. c4,s<'l Sl260 lad; May
opened and ,loS-d S13u0 Lard November
opened and closed s6SO-
Live stock TIE Union stock yards report the
following pric,s Hogs Market opened active,
but prices weak at 5Gttac lower; light grades
Si25@45o; rough packing, 81 oG49e; heavy
packing ani shipping lots SlaJQ 46d, Cattle
common to good grades about &c lower; best
barely steady: trade slow; native steers e. SO
5.20; native butcher stock 81 0JsL% 40; stockers
Rnd feeders. S16TS IL; range cattle, Sl159
$40 Sheep Quiet and unchanged; Texans
and westerns SaoDgtS %; natives, s. 75S425;
lambs 50 7SlltGl
Produce: Eutter-Fancy creamery, e31Sc
per ID; fancy dairy, liza 1ac; packing stock. ISc.
Eggs-Stricty fresh. 17tsG5 lsc per doz; ice house.
l6ls&L1.c- Poultry Chickens &c per 10; ducks
7Goc; turkeys, Gle95c; geese. s. nG6 90 per
doL Potatoes 6jl'5c per hu. Apples-Fair TO
good, 81 J1O5e ~ per bbl, CranLerries s. 0ONS
SOP per bb
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03
New York.

INV YORK. Nov. 2
Wheat Steady; No red state SEQ ssc; No 9
do, s5l4GDs5l4c; No , red winter, s3ssc; do De
cember SiI4c. Corn-S Steady; No : mixed cash
5ss4c; do November, 5sasc: doDecember 52ssc
Oats Quiet; No ! white state S6SL3sc; No. 2 do,
SO S6c; No. mixed November, 33lsc. Rye
Dull and unchanged Barley Dull and nominal
Pork Dull; old mess, Si3j0113 rs; new S14O
G1450 LAM December. 50 80; Janu-ry, So o.
Live Stock: Cattle Trade dull; common TO
fancy native steers. 81 2si 30 y 100 rs: rangers
s. 00G3a1 including more than 40 at $SOGG
100, bulls. s. 2l6bs50 Sheep and Lambs-Trsde
slow, weak and depressed for common and ordi.
nary offerings and barely steady for good TO
choice; sheep g. 75ft4 - r iU lbs; lambs, $500
az Big Hogs Nearly S.suinai. live hogs, a. 30
as 10 q 100 lbs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03
THE SWEDISH Nightingale DEAo.
Jenny Lind Passes Away at the age of &c
Years,

LONDON, Nov. S.-Jenny Lind (Mme.
Goldschmidtl, the celebrated Swedish singer,
nassed Away Wednesday morning She was
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-03

y
Go years of age. Jenny
Lind Goldschmidt was
born in Stockholm,
Sweden, Oct 6, ..S2l.
From infancy she
showei q remarkable
falent for singing, and
Fat . years OF age was
given admission to a
musical academy. She
made such progress
that in a year she was
iieemed fitted for the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Strikes and Their Cost.

Some interesting statistics were given
in Bradstreet's, few days ago, con-
corning the strikes of the first half of
this year. 1t appears that strikes have
been more numerous than during the
same period last year, but have been
on smaller scale and caused less dis
turbance to business. The whole num-
Der reported in the first six months of
1887 was 523, against 200 for the same pc
riod of 1886; the number of men engaged
was 234 ,734, against 1868 ,S95 last year.
The number of employees in the build
ing trades who have been on strike is
$1,000; in transportation service, 81 900;
in coal mining, $4,000; in boots and
shoes, II 900. But last month the num-
Der of employees of all kinds on strike
had dwindled to less than 10000. 1t
is estimated that the amount of wages
sacrificed and lost by strikes this year
is $4,000, 900. Not large strike has
succeeded in the past six or eight
months. Strikes rarely succeed on a
falling or unsettled market. Accord
ing to the Shoe and Leather Reporter,
the strikes in the shoe trade during the
last year cost in wages from 100000
to S6,000,000. The Chicago builders
strike last spring cost 50, 100000 in
wages, which would have paid $4,000
workers. The coke-workers' strike in
Pennsylvania involved a loss of over
S6SO,OOO in wages. There are some
newspapers which think it good policy
to encourage strikes, holding that work
ing-men often have no other remedy for
redress of grievances; but the fact
that the losses to working-men from
strikes have far exceeded their gains
is conclusive evidence that the remedy
costs too much and is really much worse
in its effects than the disease.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
The PeOpIe Are Old Hands.


The people of the United States first made
a president nearly one hundred years ago.
Since then they have had more than twenty
presidents. At no time have they been
without president. But no president ever
undertook to say how he should be treated
before President Cleveland. He doesn't
think that he has been treated properly.
His administration has been criticised; his
feelings have been hurt. And within the
last week he has taken several occasions to
deprecate the treatment he has received, or
imagines that he has received, and to eX-
pound his views upon the sort of treatment
he likes This suggests an interesting ques-
ton. Have the American people never
known their duty toward the president
Have they never comprehended the dignity
of the office? Has there come down no
tradition from the past century to the pres
ent day by which we may have "A correct
idea upon that subject? Is Mr.. Cleveland
the first to perceive the true character of
the executive and to discover that his feel
ings have not been properly considered?
In short, have Mr. Cleveland's recent re-
markable utterances been prompted by
some original discovery on his part, or were
they the fruit of a disposition Of extra
ordinary sensitiveness and self-contempa-
ton? AS for the question whether the peo-
ple or the present occupant of the White
House know better what is due to the office
of president, it must be said that the people
have had rather longer eXperience.-Ne
York sam Undcpendent DemOcrdO.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27

and the state courts. 1t is seriously
questioned whether Mormon legisla-
tors, judges and juries would make
and enforce laws against Mormon
polygamists. 1t is thought that the
Mormon Church is not sincere in its
purpose to abolish polygamy, but is
irving to wheedle the people of the
country into the belief that it intends
to take this step in order to set up a
claim for the admission of Utah as a
state. Once in the Union, the Nor
mons would have everything their own
wav. The Boston Traveller well sug-
gests that Utah should not be adj
mitted to the Union until the Mormon
Church, in its capacity as such, formally
renounces the doctrine of polygamy
and its adherents have abandoned its
practice for period of time sufficient
to guarantee that both doctrines and
practice have been absolutely given up,
unless in the meantime the Mormon
population should fall into such a mi
nority as to give assurance of the rig
orous enforcement of stringent laws
against the Mormon monster"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Notes and Opinions.

THERE is nothing funny about edit
ing paper this weather.
Mr.. EvARTs finds time to say that
" Mr.. Cleveland is laboring in the
trough of very heavy sea-"
THE democracy of Pennsylvania calls
itself harmonious when its bosses are
not chewing off one another's ears.
THE Charleston Is. c. NepS (demo-
craD prints three-coumn editorial
declaring that there never was treason
or traitors in connection with the re-
bellion.
THE Dow liquor law of Ohio has al
ready closed 5000 saloons through the
operation of the provision which per-
mits town to prohibit wholly the sale
of liquor.
ALTHOUGH the coercion bill has be-
come law, it is thought the British
government will reduce the eviction of
tenants, which has lately created so
much trouble.
THE Presidents friends consider his
denomination as sure. They believe
that the recalcitrant democrats have
been forced into enthusiastically Wash
ington Special.
THE reports of damage by floods and
thunder-storms which visited the Mid
die and Eastern States last Saturday
and Sunday are unprecedented for this
season of the year.
IT is alleged that two-thirds of the
newspapers of the South are in favor
of protection. 1t is sound policy, and
if there is anything that will build up
the South it is protection.
"QUITE an unfortunate homicide -
is the cold-wave sort of description in O
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
The Bennington Monument.

The following programme and order of
exercises have been agreed upon for the
Bennington monument celebration, with
this order of march; Chief Marshal Colonel
George W. Hooker and staff First Regi-
ment military band; Bennington Battle
Monument Association and committees
First Brigade. \. G.. v, Brigadier-general
w. l.. Greenleaf commanding, Colonel Jul
ius j. Estey commanding the First Regi-
ment and Major George II. Bond command
ing the Provisional Battalion; Grand Army
of the Republic, Captain p ID. Blodgett, de-
partment commander; visiting military or
CARNATIONS: governor of Vermont and
staff: representative of the United States
government and staff; Ex-Governor Pres
colt, president of the day; Congressman
Stewart, orator of the day; governor of
New Hampshire and staff governor of
Massachusetts and staff; judges of the Yer
mont supreme court; Judge Wheeler Of the
United states circuit court; civil officers;
federal officers; other civic organizations;
Canton Bennington, |. o. o. F.. with in
vited chevalers: Masonic division, Right
Worshipful Thomas S. Miller, deputy grand
marshall band; Temple escort; Taft Com
mandery, No. s; Master Masons; Knights
Templar, Eminent John X. Pilling, grand
captan-general: Grand Commandery of
Vermont, Knights Templar, Right Eminent
Delos NJ. Bacon, grand commander and
Right Worshipful Harley G. Sheldon, grand
marshal Grand Lodge of Vermont: grand
sets, accompanied by eminent brethren;
Most Worshipiul Alfred A. Hall, grand
master of Vermont; Fuller Battery, Captain
Levi X. Fuller, commanding. The National
Guard will form at the corner of North and
Pleasant streets, march up Pleasant to
Main, down Main to Willow and at
this point other organizations will form
and fall into line. The procession will start
at one p. NJ. sharp. A speakers stand will
be erected at the monument site with a
view to giving everybody chance to see
and hear the ceremonies. The cornerstone
will be suspended in md-air and lowered at
the proper moment. The stone will be pre-.
sented, according to ancient usage, by
Artist Rim. Governor Ormsbee will ac-
cept it on the part of the state and present
it to the association, and Hon, b. f. Pres
colt, president of the association will ac-
| cept it in behalf of the association. The
Grafton will follow, and the ceremonies will
close with a benediction by the Rev, Isaac
! Jennings A double quartette of Benning-
| ton voices will render the vocal music and
the First Regiment military band the instru-
| mental. The cornerstone will contain the
various histories of early Vermont includ-
! ing the writings Of Governor Hall, that of
the civic societies participating in the exer-
cises of the day, copies of important records
of the town, county, state, etc. At half
past four p. NJ the brigade will be reviewed
at Camp Warner by the governor, COM
mander-in-chief, accompanied by the dis
! tinguished officers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
Hot Waves.

The record of the summer thus far has
been one of uncommon heat, which has
not been exceeded in duration since
1876, when there were twenty-siX days of
tropical weather. Since the 4th of July
there have been few days when the tenn
perature in some parts of the country
has not exceeded ninety degrees, and on
many days it has reached one hundred
three degrees in the shade. The wise
meteorologst of the New York Herald
ventures to show how the hot waves
originate. That they emanate from the
interior of the country itself he re-
CARDS as the most tenable hypothesis.
He holds that they are generated by the
diurnal accumulation of soil tempera-
ture. The earth's heat rapidly escapes
through the atmosphere into space un-
less the air is charged with vapor.
Professor Tyndal and other physicists
have demonstrated that though only
one per cent of the atmosphere may be
made up of vapor molecules, this
small modicum of aqueous vapor in
tercepts fifteen times the quantity of
heat Escaping from the earth) stopped
by the whole of the air in which it is
diffused.n 1t is therefore inferred
that the American hot waves - are
formed in the great plains when the
absolute humidity of the air, in either
its upper or lower strata, is eXcep-
tionally high. This inference is sus-
tanned by the fact that among the
highest soil temperatures on record are
those observed by Sir John Herschel in
the humid atmosphere of the Cape of
Good Hope-as high as one hundred
fifty-nine degrees Fahrenheit-and by
the traveller, Stuart, on the Macquarie
river, in New South Wales, where, he
says, " the ground was almost a molten
surface, and if match fell upon it it
Immediately ignited."
The heated term has been prolific of
sun-strokes, and in the great cities the
great heat has told fearfully upon
children as well as persons engaged in
outdoor work. The theory has been
generally accepted that liability to sun
stroke or prostration from heat is
greater when excessive heat is ac-
companied by excessive moisture in
the air. Most people can testify from
personal experience that hot, moist
air is more oppressive and facilitating
than comparatively dry air. And yet
some investigations made in Cincinnati
as to the special weather conditions
that contributed to the sun-stroke cpl
demic of 1881 showed that ten times
more people died when the air was
comparatively dry than when it was
moist. So this problem is not yet
definitely solved. 1t is certain that
fatalities from heat are more common
among persons of Incorporate habits
or whose vitality has been weakened
by excess, though it is trying period
for everybody.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
On the Decline.

Although Mr.. Powderly has given
the assurance recently that the knights
of Labor organization, instead of break
ing up internally, is in a flourishing
condition and breaking up the ills of
society,"" there is no reason to doubt
that its strength and influence is rap
idly declining. The secession of the
brewers element, because the order
has espoused temperance principles, is
not a serious loss to the organization,
but there are discussions and defec-
tons all around, decrease of member
ship and general discomfort with the
official management. The organiza-
ton has had a kind of mushroom
growth and has been greatly weakened
by the unwise and unjust methods en-
ployed to accomplish its purposes. The
public may sympathize with labor or
CARNATIONS in their general aims and
purposes, but when these organizations
seek to promote their objects by I'M
necessary and costly strikes, interfer-
ence with the laws of trade, boycotting
and acts of violence and abridging the
rights of laborers not associated with
them, then reaction sets in and pub
lie sentiment becomes arrayed against
them So it has been with the knights
of Labor. What they have regarded
as the strongest weapons to promote
their interests have created popular
distrust and bred discomfort within
their own ranks.
1t is now stated that the paid-up
membership of the order is not half as
large as it was a year ago and that a
score of assemblies are lapsing every
week AT this rate the organization
will soon become burden to its active
members and will 60 to pieces unless
reorganized on a somewhat different
plan. Among the causes which are
contributing to this result may be men
toned the impoverishment of their
treasures by innumerable strikes and
labor dissensions, their defeat in almost
every recent fight they have waged
against employers and deep-seated
conviction that the general officers of
the order are running things for their
own benefit and not for the good of
the members. But, after all, the great
weakness of the Knights of Labor lies
in their resort to measures hostile to
the public welfare. The short way to
destroy such organizations is the en-
ployment of methods which do greater
harm than they seek to remedy. No
one questions the right of working-men
to combine for the protection of their
interests, but to be successful their con-
certed action needs a far more tolerant
spirit than they have displayed in this
movement
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27

was daily investigating the different strata
comprising the earth's crust, and he was
particularly fond of gathering specimens OF
minerals and fossils. One day he crossed
the lake, and in rambling about came upon
a vein of granite which subsequently proved
to be of great value and utility. He con-
fided the fact of his discovery to a leading
Vergennes physician, who became interested
and was finally offered an interest with the
understanding that he was to furnish the
capital for developing the quarry, which he
did. Buildings and derricks were erected and
the work of quarrying was in time begun, but
the capital being limited, immediate results
were not encouraging, and the work was,
after the lapse of some time, discontinued,
though, as 1t has since turned out, the quality
of the stock was such as to insure a large
demand. Mr.. Burge, fully imbued with the
idea that the quarry was rich and satisfied
that ultimately it would be protitably
worked, decided to remain on the ground,
title to which he had in some manner
secured, and thus hold it from trespassers.
And now comes the interesting part of the
story, which proves the wisdom of his
course and shows how he was amply re-
warded for his patience. His faith in his dis
covery an his determination to hold on
has been heroically maintained through
period fraught with frequent discourage
ments. A syndicate with ample capital
comes forward at last and takes possession
great value, and the aged geologist and dis
coverer is paid $4,000 and still retains a
profitable interest in the company. The
little town of Westport gets quite an i'm
petus in consequence of the discovery, while
the pecuniary circumstances of one who has
experienced the hardships of life are most
pleasantly transformed. People acquainted
with the circumstances tell of the discovery
by this same Burge of fossil in the shape Of
a large serpent, which the geologist has
partly unearthed from the rocks in the
vicinity of the quarries. He has already
got out about eight feet Of the monster, the
largest part of which is some five inches in
diameter. Beginning with the tail, every
joint is said to be perfect in detail, as are
the fine petrifed scales, while the cavity
which held the intestines is a perfectly
smooth surface. Burge continues to unearth
the fossil as time permits, and he feels sure
of obtaining the head, which he thinks, like
the body, is incased in solid rock.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
How 1t Strikes a Westerner.

A western man, farmer, coming from a
region where a considerable amount of Gale
donia county funds are invested, made his
first visit to Vermont last month to view
the country and to visit friends, as the per-
sonal item has it. Being farmer himself
he naturally spent much of his time among
the farmers in this vicinity. He saw this
locality at its best to be sure, and when
asked his opinion of the farms and farmers
of Vermont he spoke something after this
fashion, "The thing that impresses me
most is the feeling of unrest among the
farmers. | rarely meet one who is not wait
ing for chance to sell out They plant their
crops and lay their plans not for the future but
for the present, as next year or next month
they propose to move" This man expressed
the opinion that no farmer or business man
could succeed who did business in this way
Were they to work the farms of the West
with the same feeling, build houses with the
idea that they were to live in them but few
days, work with their hands while their
heads and their hearts were over in the next
state or territory, they would be very likely
to reap there, as they too often do here dis
appointment.-Cdledo
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-27
The State Experiment Station.

/ presume the farmers will be glad to
know what is being done with the appro-
priation made last fall for the Experiment
Station. Mr.. Cooke, the new secretary of
the Board of Agriculture, was made director
of the station. The building to be used for
this work is the old Medical College at the
south end of University park, Burlington
and which is well adapted for the purpose
The second story, which is well fitted up
will be used as a laboratory and the third
story as a lecture room. This room will
seat one hundred seventy-fve and was
where the Agricultural College series of
farmers lectures were held last winter
They were very well attended. A part of
the work of this station will be the analv-
sis of fertilizers sold within the state.
About one hundred thirty different samples
have already been analysed. The effect of
this work is already apparent in a better
grade of fertilizers, only standard valuable
brands now being sold in the state, while
the poor and worthless kinds are fast being
driven out of the market. A series of expert
ments in the testing of fertilizers and seeds is
being carried on upon eighty different farms
As results are obtained, we suppose they
will be given to the public in bulletins or
other form. Besides these some expert
ments are being performed at the college
and also a course on two separate farms.
with different kinds of folders. These will
be fed to two different breeds of cows, one
on each farm. to test their value in the pro-
ducton of milk. Concerning the work of the
Board of Agriculture for the coming winter,
Professor Cooke intends to have the arrange
ments for all of the meetings made early in
the season.-St. AlbdnS Messenger.